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ROG Crosshair III Formula 5-1
5.1 ATI
®
CrossFireX™ technology
The motherboard supports the ATI
®
CrossFireX™ technology that allows you to
install multi-graphics processing units (GPU) graphics cards. Follow the installation
procedures in this section.
5.1.1 Requirements
• You should have two identical CrossFireX-ready graphics cards or one
CrossFireX-ready dual-GPU graphics card that are ATI
®
• Ensure that your graphics card driver supports the ATI CrossFireX technology.
Download the latest driver from the AMD website at www.amd.com.
• Ensure that your power supply unit (PSU) can provide at least the minimum
power required by your system. See page 2-41 for details.
5.1.2 Before you begin
For ATI CrossFireX to work properly, you have to uninstall all existing graphics card
drivers before installing ATI CrossFireX graphics cards to your system.
To uninstall existing graphics card drivers
1. Close all current applications.
2. For Windows XP, go to Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs.
For Windows Vista, go to Control Panel > Programs and Features.
3. Select your current graphics card driver/s.
4. For Windows XP, select Add/Remove.
For Windows Vista, select Uninstall.
5. Turn off your computer.
• We recommend that you install additional chassis fans for better thermal
environment.
graphics card and the supported 3D application list.
- Motherboard 1
- Second Edition 2
- June 2009 2
- Contents 3
- Safety information 9
- Operation safety 10
- About this guide 11
- Typography 12
- (continued on the next page) 13
- Chapter 1: Product 17
- 1.1 Welcome! 19
- 1.2 Package contents 19
- 1.3 Special features 20
- DDR3 1600 (O.C.) support 21
- MemOK! 22
- Extreme Tweaker 22
- Voltiminder LED 22
- Loadline Calibration 22
- 1.3.3 ROG unique features 23
- 1.3.4 ASUS special features 24
- C.P.R. (CPU Parameter Recall) 25
- Chapter 2: Hardware 27
- 2.1 Before you proceed 29
- Onboard LEDs 30
- ROG Crosshair III Formula 2-5 33
- 2.2 Motherboard overview 34
- 2.2.3 Layout contents 35
- 2.2.5 Screw holes 36
- 2.2.4 Placement direction 36
- 2.3.1 Installing the CPU 37
- Gold triangle 38
- Small triangle 38
- 2.4 System memory 42
- One DIMM: 43
- 44
- 2.5.4 Removing a DIMM 48
- 2.4.3 Installing a DIMM 48
- 2.5 Expansion slots 49
- 2.5.3 Interrupt assignments 50
- 2.5.4 PCI slot 51
- 2.5.5 PCI Express x1 slots 51
- 2.6 Jumper 53
- 2.7 I/O shield, LCD Poster 54
- and Audio card Installation 54
- 2.8 Connectors 56
- * LAN port LED indications 57
- 2.7.2 Internal connectors 58
- 6. GP connector (8-pin GP) 62
- SUPREMEFX 67
- RESET SW 68
- 2.8.3 Onboard switches 69
- 3. MemOK! switch 70
- BIOS setup 73
- 3.1.1 ASUS Update utility 75
- 3-2 Chapter 3: BIOS setup 76
- Quit all Windows 76
- CROSSHAIRIIIFORMULA 77
- CROSSHAIRIIIFORMULA.ROM 77
- Recovering the BIOS 79
- 3.2 BIOS setup program 80
- 3.2.2 Menu bar 81
- 3.2.3 Navigation keys 81
- 3.2.1 BIOS menu screen 81
- Scroll bar 82
- Pop-up window 82
- 3.3 Extreme Tweaker menu 83
- 3-10 Chapter 3: BIOS setup 84
- 3.3.10 HT Link Speed [Auto] 85
- DCT Unganged Mode [Auto] 86
- Power Down Enable [Disabled] 86
- Bank Swizzle Mode [Enabled] 86
- DRAM Command Rate [Auto] 87
- 3-14 Chapter 3: BIOS setup 88
- 3.3.20 NB Voltage [Auto] 90
- 3.3.22 SB Voltage [Auto] 90
- 3.3.24 DRAM REF Voltages 91
- 3.3.27 Debug Mode [String] 91
- 3.4 Main menu 92
- Type [Auto] 93
- LBA/Large Mode [Auto] 93
- PIO Mode [Auto] 94
- DMA Mode [Auto] 94
- SMART Monitoring [Auto] 94
- 32Bit Data Transfer [Enabled] 94
- 95
- 3.4.6 System Information 96
- 3.5 Advanced menu 97
- 3-24 Chapter 3: BIOS setup 98
- 99
- 101
- Onboard Lan [Standard] 102
- Firewire 1394 [Enabled] 102
- 103
- 3.5.5 PCI PnP 104
- All LED Control [Enabled] 105
- 106
- 3.6 Power menu 107
- 108
- Power On By PME [Disabled] 109
- 3.6.6 Hardware Monitor 110
- Fan Speed Monitor 111
- Fan Speed Control 111
- Chassis Q-Fan Mode [Silent] 112
- PWRFan Control [Disabled] 112
- 3.7 Boot menu 113
- 3.7.3 Security 115
- Change User Password 116
- Password Check [Setup] 116
- 3.8 Tools menu 117
- 118
- 3.8.3 TweakIt Batch File 119
- 3.8.4 AI NET 2 120
- 3.9 Exit menu 121
- 3-48 Chapter 3: BIOS setup 122
- Software 123
- Chapter summary 124
- 4.2 Support DVD information 125
- 4.2.2 Drivers menu 126
- 4.2.3 Utilities menu 127
- 4.2.4 Make disk menu 129
- 4.2.5 Manual menu 129
- 4.2.6 Video menu 130
- 4.2.8 Other information 131
- Filelist 132
- Technical support form 132
- 4.3 Software information 133
- Main Panel 136
- Speakers and Headphone Panel 136
- EAX Effects Panel 137
- X-Fi CMSS-3D Panel 137
- X-Fi Crystalizer Panel 137
- Graphic Equalizer Panel 138
- Mixer Panel 138
- 4.3.3 ASUS PC Probe II 139
- Preferences 140
- Hardware monitor panels 141
- WMI browser 142
- DMI browser 142
- PCI browser 143
- 144
- 4.3.4 ASUS AI Suite 145
- Other feature buttons 146
- 4.3.5 ASUS Q-Fan 2 147
- 4.3.6 CPU Level Up 148
- 4.3.7 ASUS TurboV 149
- Advanced settings menu 150
- 4.4 RAID congurations 151
- 4.4.4 AMD 152
- Option ROM Utility 152
- Creating a RAID volume 153
- 155
- installation 156
- 157
- CrossFireX™ 159
- 5.1 ATI 161
- CrossFireX™ technology 161
- 162
- CrossFireX bridge 162
- 5.1.5 Enabling the ATI 163
- Enabling CrossFireX settings 164
- Debug code table 165
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